{"product_id":"san-miguel-de-allende-mexicans-foreigners-and-the-making-of-a-world-heritage-site-hardback-9781496200389","title":"San Miguel De Allende; Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site (Hardback) 9781496200389","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSan Miguel De Allende\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLisa Pinley Covert (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496200389\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 June 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e324 pages, 10 photographs, 4 maps, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"From its striking cover to its engaging prose, Lisa Pinley Covert's \u003ci\u003eSan Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site\u003c\/i\u003e enriches a growing, and increasingly sophisticated, body of historical scholarship on twentieth-century Mexican tourism development.\"-Evan Ward, H-LatAm\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Covert’s study is invaluable. . . . Its breadth of sources includes several private archives and interviews with dozens of residents. The study enriches the historiographies of Mexican-US relations, Mexican industrialization, cultural imperialism, gender, and inequality. . . . Given these advantages and a \u003ci\u003elongue durÉe\u003c\/i\u003e scope, running from 1935 to the near present, \u003ci\u003eSan Miguel de Allende\u003c\/i\u003e is instructive reading for a host of scholars and eminently assignable to undergraduates.\"-Andrew Paxman, \u003ci\u003eHispanic American Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSan Miguel de Allende\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable contribution to new fields that reveal a shared urban history in Mexico and the United States.\"-Marcel Sebastian Anduiza Pimentel, \u003ci\u003ePacific Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSan Miguel de Allende\u003c\/i\u003e explores Mexican national identity from a bold new perspective. Drawing on a remarkably broad range of sources Covert makes a convincing case that the remaking of San Miguel de Allende’s past anticipates the modern Mexican right’s cultural and economic project for the country’s future.”-Ben Fallaw, author of \u003ci\u003eReligion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“A richly detailed work that blends history with cultural politics, \u003ci\u003eSan Miguel de Allende\u003c\/i\u003e is a major contribution to several related fields, most clearly Mexican history, transnational history, and American studies. Its clear, concise, and compelling prose makes it easy to recommend and teach.”-Jason Ruiz, author of \u003ci\u003eAmericans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eStruggling to free itself from a century of economic decline and stagnation, the town of San Miguel de Allende, nestled in the hills of central Mexico, discovered that its “timeless” quality could provide a way forward. While other Mexican towns pursued policies of industrialization, San Miguel-on the economic, political, and cultural margins of revolutionary Mexico-worked to demonstrate that it preserved an authentic quality, earning designation as a “typical Mexican town” by the Guanajuato state legislature in 1939. With the town’s historic status guaranteed, a coalition of local elites and transnational figures turned to an international solution-tourism-to revive San Miguel’s economy and to reinforce its Mexican identity.\u003cbr\u003e              \u003cbr\u003e Lisa Pinley Covert examines how this once small, quiet town became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to one of Mexico’s largest foreign-born populations. By exploring the intersections of economic development and national identity formation in San Miguel, she reveals how towns and cities in Mexico grappled with change over the course of the twentieth century. Covert similarly identifies the historical context shaping the promise and perils of a shift from an agricultural to a service-based economy. In the process, she demonstrates how San Miguel could be both typically Mexican and palpably foreign and how the histories behind each process were inextricably intertwined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Making a Typical Mexican Town\u003cbr\u003e 2. Good Neighbors, Good Catholics, and Competing Visions\u003cbr\u003e 3. Bringing the Mexican Miracle to San Miguel\u003cbr\u003e 4. Containing Threats to Patriarchal Order and the Nation\u003cbr\u003e 5. San Miguel’\u003cbr\u003es Two Service Economies\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: From Typical Town to World Heritage Site\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599879794968,"sku":"9781496200389","price":41.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/san-miguel-de-allende-mexicans-foreigners-and-the-making-of-a-world-heritage-site-hardback-9781496200389","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}